From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall RFK Partners Inc) Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTEmacs) 9 Jan 1998 16:18:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980109102854.0093ade0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sab AT seanet DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 10:34 AM 1/8/98 -0800, you wrote: >Maybe the reading operations could track what kind of >line termination is being used on a file, then succeeding write operations >could use the same style (unless overridden by the open() flags)? That >sounds weird...and probably unworkable...just food for thought. Not necessarily. Various programs do this, including vim and, I think, NTEmacs. >How do the MS-land programs that understand both line terminations work? >They probably just accept either on input, then do \r\n on output, right? Precisely. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".